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Are you are a web developer? If yes then you definitely need a strong and creative portfolio which help you to get more projects. As there are millions of web developers already, you need to be stand out of the box. The thing which helps you to do so is your portfolio. Yes anyone can easily judge your work by just checking your portfolio. Now it shouldn’t be simple so here are some advanced tips to create standout web developer portfolio.
1. Start With Basics
No matter whether you are a developer, designer or any other professional you need to follow some basics like who you are, what you do and how someone will get touch with you.
No doubt all update their basic thing, but you need to make it more sharp and clear. You need to highlight the projects, which shows your capabilities. If you have a site, then make sure add a creative about me section.
2. Specialized Skills
Above we point out things which are related if you are looking for a job but if you are a freelancer or have your own business, then your clients may want to have a look at your portfolio. In some cases, most of the clients only looking for a web developer they don’t know exactly what kind of service they want to hire in web developer.
Other times there are also some clients who have bit knowledge of the field and looking for hiring custom web development services. Now in this situation, if you simply mention that you are into web development then you may be missing the client who is looking for custom web development services. So consider adding all the sub parts of web development.
3. Add Personal Projects
If you are a good web developer, then you must have some personal projects which you need to mention in your portfolio. Personal projects are best to show off as it will only show your creativity. You can also show the source code too for any project which demonstrates how clean code you use.
4. Link Your Github Projects Github is one of the best sources to gain and spread knowledge. If you are still not using it, then you are making a huge mistake. You need to get involved in projects immediately or if possible start your own. Get the best of Github by adding projects to your portfolio.
5. Link To Your CodePen Projects
If you are a front-end developer, then CodePen is the thing which you don’t want to ignore. If you are really good at CSS, JavaScript, HTML then this is the perfect place to show off your skills. CodePen also provides a fun environment for developers. Maybe if you are thinking why should you use CodePen when you are already using CodePen then know that it is bit different that let you do a quick experiment, we insist you use it especially if you are a beginner.
6. Link Your Social Profiles
Here you can avoid your personal Facebook URL if you want to maintain the professionalism. Apart from it, you can consider adding your LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, Github, CodePen links.
7. Make Best Of Your Portfolio
Maybe you didn’t notice, but your portfolio is the first canvas for you where you can showcase your skills. If you add something out of the box, then it will show how much creative you are. Anyone can get an idea of your skills without even reading your portfolio. You can customize the existing theme, add effects, or totally built it from scratch its all up to you.
8. Add Context
If you really want to make your portfolio totally stand out, then you need to add context so it can resonate with clients easily. Prefer to add context to every project which you mention. When you add context to make sure you properly explain what you did on the project. As regular things are easily understood, so you need to add the custom code which you specially added.
9. Awards And Recognition
If you have been previously awarded for your web developing work, then feel free to add it to your portfolio no matter how small it was. Now no need to say that you have to add professional awards. If you have earlier written for any top blogs, then it is worth mentioning.
10. Keep Copies
It is a good habit to keep screenshots or save your codes. As sites get updated, you need to maintain the things on which you worked hard. No doubt it is totally useless now because new things were up, but it really doesn’t mean that you need to put down your work too. You can use all previous code to show off that you are the one who has worked with that old technology too.
Today’s smartphone market resembles a lot to someone who is ready to be a part of any workforce. To be very particular about the apps, it’s the dream of everyone to get their app noticed by Apple or Android. It’s the same scenario as in the case of any job aspirant looking forward to submit his or her resume to a potential organization whom he or she have never met but aspire to work with. You have to follow the standard guidelines laid out by Apple or Android and if you successfully beat the first round and your apps gets featured on their panels, then you would be flooded with revenues. Below we have mentioned few of the basic tips how to achieve the success in the above mentioned respect.
1. Be Prepared for the Big Leagues
While targeting Apple or Android, ensure you follow each and every guidelines. You may face rejection in the beginning, but be ready for the improvisations that would come upon you. In order to avoid app store rejection,be very particular about labeling your app beta.
2. Give your App a Unique Name
It is extremely important to choose a unique name for your app because afterwards you won’t be able to change the name as to change the name you need to resubmit your app, which in turn will result, into waste of time, money and effort.
3. High Loading Speed
The smartphone industry lives and swears by the speed and today there is a tug of war between the app makers. The users should get the blazing speed when they use your app. For this, you need to test your app on various instruments and devices.
4. Loyalty is the key
Expressing even the slightest kindness for the rivals can cost you a great amount. You should never and never mention the other apps and brands you support during your showcase. It would result in weakening your position and hence it is a big no no.
5. Ensure Proper Attribution
Use the logo of Apple very carefully and make sure it is there for embedded property like maps. The rules of the Google, too are quite detailed and it is very obvious that the Logo of Apple and Google should be used in a proper way and should not be abused in any manner.
6. Use Standard User Interface
Please abide by the UI guidelines of your app store as this avoids user frustration and helps you keep away from being rejected by the marketplace.
7. Abide by Appstore Guidelines
AppStores have detailed submission guidelines and hence it is advisable to collect all the vital information associated to you related AppStore because having the detailed information about app guidelines can help you in achieving your goals. Once you are through with gathering of all the data and done with the drafting phase, go for – test, test and test.
Launching your App in the marketplace is one of the key factors in success of any app. And, it requires the same dedication and hard work as the other tasks require. Though, the initial steps are always the toughest one in any venture, but as the time passes things keep smoothening once you spend a considerable time and effort. Regardless of the fact, what app you develop, your app needs to leave a deep impact on your users and the above mentioned facts would help you greatly.
AppInventiv Technologies is the top-notch mobile app development company that has expertise in building marvellous mobile apps related to various domains like enterprise apps, travel, hyperlocal, logistics and many more. AppInventiv is also a mcommerce app development company that a great expertise in building m-commerce apps.
In short, functional programming is a catch-all term for a way of writing code that is focused on composing pure functions, actually using the innovations in type systems made in the last few decades, and overall being awesome.
So what’s the point? All of these things help to better understand what actually happens in our code.
the ability to manage complexity with abstractions that are borderline wizardry.
You’re a functional programmer, Harry.
As it is, functional programming is ideal for developing code for distributed systems and complex backends, but that isn’t all it can do. At Anteelo, we use it for most of our industry projects. Whether you need frontend or backend, it doesn’t matter, there is an FP language for everything nowadays.
Now that you are stoked about learning more about functional programming and have already ordered your copies of Programming Haskell on Amazon, let’s delve deeper into the details.
At the heart of functional programming is lambda calculus.
Introduced by the mathematician Alonzo Church in the 1930s, lambda calculus is just a way of expressing how we compute something. If you understand this one, you will gain a lot of intuition on how functional programming looks in practice.
There are only three elements in lambda calculus: variables, functions, and applying functions to variables. Here we have to think about function as a pure/mathematical function: a way of mapping members of a set of inputs to members of a set of outputs.
Even though it is a very simple tool, we can actually compose different functions and, in that way, encode any computation possible with a regular computer. (It would get unwieldy fast for anything non-trivial though, and that’s why we don’t program in it.
To further illustrate the concept, I refer you to this video of an absolute madman implementing lambda calculus in Python.
In 1950-60s, people began to encode this notion into programming languages. A good example is LISP, a kind of functional language designed by John McCarthy that keeps the overall incomprehensibility of lambda calculus while actually enabling you to do some things.
Example implementation of A* search algorithm in Racket (a dialect of LISP).
But that was only the beginning. One thing led to another, and, as we introduced such languages as ML and Miranda, the numerous permutations explored adding readability and a great type system. As a result, the 1980s saw the arrival of something beautiful – Haskell, a programming language so great that it was destined to evade mainstream for the next 30 years.
The same A* algorithm in Haskell.
We’ll return to Haskell later.
What else?
Ok, I hope I gave the intuition about how pure functions and chaining pure functions would look. What else is there?
Immutability. This follows from pure functions. If the function has an input and gives an output, and doesn’t maintain any state, there can be no mutable data structures. Forget i++. This is for the better. Mutable data structures are a sword that looms over the developer’s head, waiting to fall at any moment. Immutability also helps when the underlying code needs to be thread-safe and therefore is a huge boon in writing concurrent/parallel code.
All kinds of ways to handle functions. Anonymous functions, partially applied functions, and higher-order functions – these you can get in all modern programming languages. The main benefit is when we go higher up the abstraction ladder. We can introduce various kinds of design patterns such as functors, monads, and whatever-kinds-of-morphisms that we port right from category theory, one of the most powerful tools of mathematics, because… get it? Our code is a composition of mathematical functions.
There is a chance you stopped at immutability and thought: how can we accomplish anything without maintaining a global state? Isn’t it extremely awkward? Nope. We just pass the relevant state through the functions.
While it may seem unwieldy at first (and that is more because it is a new style of programming, not because of inherent complexity), functional programming abstractions help us to do it easily, For example, we can use special constructions such as state monad to pass state from function to function.
As you can see, functional programming concepts synergize well with each other. In the end, we have a self-consistent paradigm that is wonderful for anything where you would want to include an element of it.
Functional programming languages will make your business rich beyond belief
I’ve been holding back on the greatest thing, though.
Did you know that a lot of smart people are doing Haskell & Co nowadays? Functional programming is a great way to gather/meet unappreciated talent that hasn’t yet been devoured by the corporate clutches of FAANG.
We know this from experience. Our engineers are badass, and not only on our team page.
So if there is a project you want to kick off, and you want to kick it off with a team that will rock your socks off, I will list a few functional programming languages with which to attract next-level developers.
Haskell
Haskell was developed back in times far, far away when the FP community faced the situation of there being too many goddamn functional programming languages with similar properties. Turns out when you bring a lot of smart people together, something can happen. But more about that in our Haskell history post.
Since then, Haskell has established itself in certain fields, such as:
Finance
Biotech
Blockchain
Compilers & DSLs
Many large companies have projects of various sizes that use Haskell.
Haskell is a combination of various ideas that, brought together, have created a being of utter (expressive) power:
Purity. There’s a clear boundary between pure code (composed of pure functions) and impure code (input/output).
Static typing. Types are checked at compile-time, not at run-time. This prevents a lot of run-time crashes in exchange for having to actually deal with types, which some find difficult.
Laziness. Expressions are evaluated only when the value of the expression is needed in contrast to strict evaluation where the expression is evaluated when it is bound to the variable.
Immutability. The data structures are immutable.
It’s one of our favourite languages, and for a reason. Haskell, when used correctly, delivers. And what it delivers is precise and effective code that is easy to maintain.
Want to go functional, but would love to spoil it with a couple of classes here and there?
Scala is the right choice for that. For some reason favoured by people that wrote Apache Spark, it can be useful for big data processing, services, and other places where functional programming is amazing.
An additional bonus of Scala is that it compiles to JVM. If that is something you need as a manager to introduce functional programming to a Java codebase, go you!
Once you start writing purely functional Scala that does not interact with JVM, there are not a lot of reasons to just switch to Haskell though as the support is much better.
OCaml
If Haskell is a bit niche, OCaml is super niche with one of the main things holding it above water being local developer support in France.
But perhaps not anymore. For example, similarly to other programming languages listed, it has seen use in blockchain, particularly, Tezos. And they have their reasons.
OCaml is one of those languages that blurs the boundary between functional programming and object-oriented languages. Therefore, using OCaml over Haskell might be more intuitive for a newly functional programmer. OCaml is less obsessed with purity, and the people who write in it are a bit more practical: you might survive the attack of your fellow developers if you just try to wing it in OCaml.
Elixir
Did you know that the world’s best web framework is written in a functional programming language? Productive. Reliable. Fast. Yeah.
Elixir is a functional, general-purpose programming language that runs on BEAM, the Erlang VM. It is known for its role in creating low-latency and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Furthermore, it is great at creating stuff that scales according to the needs of the network. Elixir is extremely well used at companies like WhatsApp and Netflix that handle a lot of data and need to do it fast. You can’t miss this one if you are doing something similar.
You know, I cannot end without a pitch. Functional programming is excellent for extensive systems and structures. However, not every business can devote enough resources to execute such complicated work. Anteelo understands the struggle and aims to deliver the best service possible to ensure smooth and reliable programming projects for your company.
Our developer team provides development services in different languages. We not only write code but also carry out projects from their starting ideas to their last stages. This means that we can also do research, design, and other connected services for you. Although we offer a versatile coding language scope, I have to warn that we mainly use Haskell.
Giving a kick-ass start to small business is not everyone’s cup of tea these days. The reason behind this is that there are several as well as huge challenges, which come into the existence while implementing any plan. Every person has his own business, thus competition has become quite complicated. This is the reason why people need to own new marketing strategies and as this aspect matters a lot. People are owning advanced technology to stay on the top list and get more and more customers to the services they are offering.These days web technologies are highly in demand because of their advanced features. These are less time taking, affordable as well as convenient. The best advantages of this are that it brings the desired level of traffic to the business.
These days we will hardly find the person that not have his business website. Most of the people try to get the website with eye catchy features and easy usability so that visitor gets attractive easily and understand the services features.
Here are some advantages of making a user-friendly website for business growth:
The Best Way of Marketing Branding: Web development present the business in front of most of the people very quickly as well as effectively. The visual display helps to clear all the concept and visitors get to know about the expertise of business easily. This strategy not only helps to make the customers in locality but world wide as well. This is the reason why people prefer to have the website with well-decorated aspects that attract most of the visitors easily.
The brand gets its name famous because of its presentation as well as outlook.
Enhance the Approachability: Everyday we see several new websites of same business online, but we choose the service of one that looks attractive, resolve our most of the queries and offer quick services. Even small businesses can get more popularity with the help of this website. All we need to do is hire the services of professional and best web developer. Its only functionality and design of the website that helps to get more number of visitors and quick resolving of the questions retain most of them in short time period. In this way, small business is making strong customer base with their online existence which is provided by web development technology.
A Quick Boost in The Ranking: Since there are several marketing strategies, which are in the trend for years. But these days web development performing well to gain the high rank in the market. This technology helps us presenting the business where most of the people search for it. If the development work has been done by the professional, it attracts a large number of traffic and gives chance to make the client base strong.
Web development is something unique and advanced. It is the latest technology that helps to build more clients and get the desired growth in business.
Web development is one process consisting of multiple phases. Just as time is segmented into centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, the web development process is also segmented into steps for better understanding and supervision. The segmentation of the steps differs from one developer to developer. Here, we will accentuate over the salient steps or phases of web development process. Different developers might give these a different name, but the work done in each step is the same.
1.Collection of Information
The first phase includes a collection of information and requirements. If it is your website, you outline what look you want at the front-end and what you wish at the back-end, the goal of the website. It is for traffic only or converting visitors into leads. If it is client’s website, ask the questions that would fetch you enough information to move on to the next step.
2. Planning Phase
Once you have enough information to start your web development project on paper, you start off with the planning stage. It’s time to work and the list of requirements and research on the basis of the information gathered. The best optimal solutions are offered to proceed with the work in the planning stage, tasks are allocated, and deadlines are given.
3. Web Designers
Web designers come into play to prepare a mockup to let everyone see how will the website look before it is actually made. Web development and designing go hand in hand. Any changes in the visual aspect can be made at this phase of the development process. Designers are also given the list of requirements for the clients and functionality to be used on the website. The designers in some cases prepare a wireframe to check if everything is in its place.
4. And, The Coding Begins
Once the design is ready and every element in its place, the coding part begins to bring the design to life. This is the core web development phase. Page after page, functionality after functionality, the codes are implemented, re-checked. Best framework and language are chosen that keep the website light and maintain a good page speed.
5. Testing and Delivery
Once the coding is done, testing phase in web development begins. It is done to eradicate the minor or major errors if any. The goal of each functionality is thoroughly checked on several parameters to see if it is working on all browsers, devices. When all the errors are rectified and the website is fully functional as the client wanted it gets delivered to the client.
Bonus Phase and The Most Important One
Maintenance
Updates in the content display, functionality, adding more products/services, and managing them all are taken care in the maintenance phase. This goes on as the demand for the updates is generated.
Prepare your project sheet and segment the complete web development process in these phases. The key is to concentrate on each point at one time so as to deliver efficient overall results.
The world of mobile applications is in the state of constant competition. With the increasing competition, you need to look for someone who can actually keep you ahead of all the other. That is where this article might help you, we have shortlisted the best android app development companies of Delhi for you to choose from:
Anteelo
Best in the business and one of the most promising companies of all times, Anteelo has paved its way to the top agencies providing a range of services ranging from: social media marketing, e-commerce development, technology consulting, UI Mobile/web and many more. Having worked with several reputed brands like Toyota, TCS, Subway and others, their professionals know just the exact recipe to smooth experience and outstanding work.
Squareboat is a leading IT services provider which has established a name in the industry by delivering great bespoke web and mobile applications. With a google rating of 4.5 starts and positive reviews of various google users, Squareboat has also bagged a few well reputed works like that of PVR cinema, Max estates, Oxfordcaps and many more. They use latest technologies and promise to deliver the best to their clients.
Logic clump is a team of developers working passionately to tun the visions of their clients into reality by providing with some of the most interactive and attractive layouts for their apps and websites. They have worked upon several apps of different jargons. They believe in working to the best of their abilities and deliver amazing outcomes.
Established in 2014, with 65 members of professional in their team and a splendid record of 99% of satisfied client, /NetScape India is also worth a mentioning in the list. They provide world-class web designing, web development, E commerce websites and Internet marketing services to clients from across the globe. Innovation and creativity are their A1s.
Established in 2006, Techmagnate provides marketing services like Web Design, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Pay-Per-Click Advertising, and Application Development. They believe in completely re-designing and working with their best of abilities with a team that has mad love for their profession, to serve the best to their clients. They promise to take the clients’ inputs and implement them into the bigger plan.
Oodles studio has an expertise in user experience and design and branding. They have been working with several reputed b rands and have a team of enthusiast who have always served excellence in the field. They build responsive digital designs for websites, mobile sites, and mobile applications with interactive and engaging user interfaces using the right mix of colors, graphics, and functionalities.
Serving brilliant craft, Designoxy, visualizes the perfect outcomes that are filled with creativity and help their clients’ websites to stand out. They have worked with several brands like Freewill, Honda, CEAT and others.
A website is a need for today business owners who have not website are losing their valuable leads because at the same time your competitor is fetching all your leads or sales using website. Maybe you are now aware of website benefits that’s why you are here. Here we’ve talked about how you can find best custom web development services.We know picking the best custom web development services is not an easy task but with this post, we help you to decide to choose the best one. Make sure you read the full article and then apply the points while looking for custom web development services. It will really help you to find what you are looking for so best of luck.
1. Experience
You need to look for a company who has a decent year of experience. In this age of competition, many companies open and shut down every day. Now the company which stands for years means they have good knowledge and knows every in and out in the industry. They obviously stay up to date with latest technologies and latest trends. If you choose a company which has years of experience in custom web development services then it is sure that you will get an awesome output.
2. Previous Work
Now if the company has years of experience then it really doesn’t mean that the particular company will give you the best result. Actually, you need to check the company’s previous work and if possible contact the client which they mentioned on their website. Company’s previous work will tell you more about the company without even contacting them. Check their previous websites or work and check the functionality, design etc. If they are creative in their work then no doubt you will also get something out of the box.
3. Dedicated Team
There are many processes involved in custom web development services. It is not a one-man task, it requires a full dedicated team. Generally, web development starts with a plan, after that how it will look, what functionality needs, framework, testing, finding bugs and more. Each single task needs to be handled by professionals so he/she can eliminate all errors or flaws.
4.Content and SEO
If you want to up in the game then you need fresh and unique content anyhow. Content is king and you can’t ignore it. Apart from that second most important thing is SEO. If you neglect the SEO of your website then you will be out of the game and your competitor will overtake you. Well writing fresh content and keep an eagle eye on your website SEO can be a pain for you, so if you have a budget then it is a good idea to outsource the task to the company. You can ask the same company which is providing the custom web development services definitely they have professionals for it if not then you can look for other company but it is better if you pick the same company for all task.
5. Budget
This is obviously the first thing pops up in mind when you start reading about Custom web development services in india. Well, all companies have a different price. Some may provide the same service at a lower price or vice versa. Here you need to be very careful because when you see services with low price obviously you will prefer it first but you will get good service it is not a guarantee. Actually, you need to consider all the factors mentioned here to before taking any decision. At the end, if you decide you pick the custom web development services which charge bit high then feel free to go with it.
6. Maintenance and Support
When your website grows definitely it need be updated time to time because you need to update your website according to your visitors, add new achievements, functions and more. Moreover, you also need some security features in future so you need to be prepared for it. Many custom web development services offer full support which means whenever you face any problem in your website they help you to resolve it free of cost. Now it really doesn’t count any website update but yes you can expect some small favors.
Hope you find this article useful. Here at RichestSoft you will find the best custom web development services and apart from it, we are into mobile app development, SEO, SMO, content writing, SalesFOrce and other IT solutions. Feel free to contact us and get a quote on your website.
People are assessing React Native as the best way to get their app on both iOS and Android devices in the least time, money and efforts. But is it really effective? Should one choose React Native over Native (iOS & Android) platforms? Switching app development platform involves higher setup cost and can bring a great impact on your daily processes. It won’t be wrong to say that it can be the costliest decision to undo when something considerable has been developed.To assist you in clearing the doubts and come up with a better choice, we are sharing our thoughts about React Native app development in this blog.
React Native
React Native is one of the most emerging, open- source application development frameworks. It was developed by Facebook with the motive to bring the concepts from web development into mobile development. In this framework, development is done in JavaScript. However, the app appearance seems to be like a native app.
“More than 1000 mobile apps use React Native technology, including the Facebook app, Instagram app, Airbnb app, UberEats and Walmart app.”
Pros of React Native App Development
Cross Platform Compatibility
The biggest advantage of building applications with this technology is that majority of React Native APIs are cross platform. That means, you need to write just one component and it will work flawlessly on both iOS and Android. On top of it, the React Native provides the facility to write platform-specific code so as to give the ‘look and feel’ of the native apps. In other words, one need not learn two different languages to launch an application on two distinct platforms.
“According to the top mobile app development companies, 85% of the code written for React Native development is similar for both iOS and Android, which represents the business logic. The rest 15% is different as it is associated with the app layout and user experience.”
Live Updates and CodePush
React native allows the mobile app developers to push any update to the user’s phone without going through the app store update cycle. And this all is possible because of considerable use of Javascript and integration of Microsoft’s live update service CodePush SDK with React native application.
Enhanced Development Environment
Features like hot reloading refresh the UI instantaneously, whenever a change is made to the file. This gives the mobile app developers an escape from the monotonous process of rebuilding and deploying from the iteration cycle. Besides this, React Native development involves usage of the Flexbox layout engine for both iOS and Android platforms. This means you need not learn about two different layout engines for app development process.
Cons of React Native App Development
Poor Documentation
Whenever a new platform comes into existence, we explore the available documentation from the official sources as well as communities. If you consider this for React Native, you would find it hard to gather enough information.
Though Facebook is leaving no stone unturned, a lot many components of React native development are not well documented. This is even more evident in case of community-created articles, as no progress is being observed after a few releases of this framework.
Native SDK Update
The React Native has not thoroughly integrated the latest iOS and Android updates into its core library. Because of this, you might lag behind others in using the latest features into your mobile application.
“As per our experts, the updations in the React Native depends on the requests app developers send for a particular API. This means, it is possible that some new features might get included in the next React Native release, while some might get missed.”
Third Party Components
When compared to community-generated libraries for iOS and Android, we still have limited number of third-party components for app development using React Native. This is primarily because this framework does not provide a diverse range of possible features that developers wish to implement in their apps. Moreover, the compatibility and support of these components are not assured with future React Native releases.
Interaction with Other Native Apps
It is much easier to get an access to native applications such as camera through native frameworks than React Native. Thus, you have to write the access code in native modules or via a third party library.
Long-Term Support
There is no certainty of the long-term support for React Native. The Google and Apple do not support this framework, and Facebook might also decide to stop updating it one day.
Final Thoughts
From our experience, we can say that no doubt React Native is a great platform for mobile app development, it is not mature or stable yet. Moreover, it is uncertain. So, it is better to adopt this framework only when you want to build applications for both platforms but have a tight time and budget. In addition to this, React Native app development is also a great choice when you have a strong experience in web development or your application is simple, short-term & has no complex functionality. For all other cases, we strongly recommend the Native approach.
Has it ever happened to you that you try to achieve something but the end result was totally unanticipated? Sometimes good things are an accident – Electricity, Discovery of America, Gravity, and PHP.
Wait, what?
Actually, PHP was never intentionally designed. Rasmus Lerdorf, a Danish software engineer attempted to design an easy common gateway interface by using the C language that would help him track views on his CV. Little did he know what he had created for such a menial task is going to change the face of web applications.
As for Python, the language has its own fan following spread worldwide.
What is there to see is how these two fare when put under juxtaposition. Yes! We are talking about the popular battle of PHP vs Python.
So, why don’t we begin the first round by discussing what they are, individually?
What is Python?
Well, of course, it’s not a snake (pun intended).
For real, Python is one of the few best web programming languages for web development that is winning the hearts of many around the world. It is a non-complex object-oriented, high-level, interpreted language, possessing amazing built-in data structures connected with dynamic typing and binding. It is features such as these that make developers choose this language for efficient and effective app development.
What is more, it is a scripting language that is proficient in binding and combining numerous components together. To add another jewel to its crown, it favors cross-platform development, making it ideal for web and mobile app development.
In fact, Python had recently won second place as the most popular language on Github, beating Java to dust and is one of the most loved languages.
Features of Python programming language
Fast in nature
There is no compiling in Python, for the programs are added to the interpreter which runs them directly. This is something that happens for the rest of the programming languages. It is very easy and quick to get access to the feedback on your Python code like recognizing errors, etc. Due to reasons like this, Python has the ability to execute and finish the programs speedily in comparison to other languages.
Supports test-driven development
With Python app development, coding and testing go hand-in-hand, something that is a tried and tested way to the efficacious development process. Developers are able to develop prototypes of the applications as Python allows them to refactor the code.
Amazing standard library
Another probable feature of Python programming language that enabled it to beat Java on Github, is its collection of impeccable libraries. Python’s robust standard library supports the programmers in choosing modules as per the requirements demand. Here every module allows developers to add other multiple functionalities even when the process is about to complete and that too without any additional coding.
{Bonus- Java vs Python: Who is Winning the Coding Battle?}
Support for Big Data
If you have been looking forward to working on the Big Data technology but aren’t sure what should be in your tool set, then trust me, Python will be all you need to start with. This programming language is being used extensively in Big Data development; simply because it is faster and has a lot of libraries in store, that are in harmony with Big Data.
Highly compatible
Python is the first choice of developers who want to do away with the recompilation process. It is because along with supporting numerous OS like iOS, Android, Windows, etc., it allows developers to use Python interpreters to run the same code on all platforms and even modify it without performing recompilation. And on top of it, it allows programmers to check the code almost instantly when the changes are made.
Advantages of Python
Object-oriented and cross-platform programming language
Portable in nature due to WORA functionality
Highly readable, making it easy for beginners
It is open-source, a feature which makes it easily accessible
It is a constantly evolving language
Disadvantages of Python
Slightly in-effective in mobile computing and browsers
Design restrictions: Duck-typing may cause run-time errors
Delayed testing of web applications
A little too simple for certain tasks
Popular apps made with Python
Being a trusted programming language, there are many popular use cases of Python you must be knowing already.
What is PHP?
Speaking of the name itself, it has a little kick to it. The acronym does not fully describes its full form which is Hypertext Preprocessor. It is also an open-source scripting language (means a script-based program) that is server-side in nature facilitating development for every web app development company.
Additionally, it is possible to embed PHP in HTML to create dynamic web pages for web applications, database apps, and E-Commerce apps. In fact, developers consider it to be a pretty friendly language as it can connect with databases like Oracle, MySQL, etc.
Features of PHP
Highly flexible and scalable
To be successful, a language should be flexible and scalable enough to give a wiggle room to programmers to have fun, something which PHP clearly offers. It can be easily integrated with other programming languages, namely, Java and others. The components built with this language are reusable.
There are many extensions available to enable different functionalities, that help in defining many kinds of project requirements.
Fast loading speed
Speed plays a crucial role in making any programming language a favorite of developers. PHP is considered to be a high-speed rendering language as it easily establishes a connection with the database to fetch the requested data in less time as compared to many languages out there in the market.
Supports Cross-platform development
PHP is no way behind Python in catering multiple platforms, i.e, it is also a cross-platform language that helps developers in creating web applications for operating systems such as UNIX, LINUX, Windows, and more. What is more, it also supports Apache and MySQL database.
Loosely typed language
PHP is denoted as a loosely typed language as it supports variable usage without even declaring its data type. It will be taken at the time of the execution based on the kind of data it has on its value.
Error Reporting
One of the amazing features of PHP is that it has a function that generates a warning notice when something is wrong, allowing the developers to address the issues in real-time.
Advantages of PHP
Has an enormous ecosystem
Object-oriented and open-source language with an active community
Interoperability- has numerous pluggable frameworks
Now, let’s see how Python Compares to PHP and vice versa.
1. Performance and speed
Speed is often synonymous with great performance in web applications. And in the case of PHP vs Python performance for web applications, it is no different. It is crucial for web apps to perform error-free while processing millions of requests at a time. PHP is considered to be much more effective at speed. Though PHP 5.x was fast, PHP 7.x broke its own records, leaving average Python programs to dust. It completes the tasks almost 3 times faster.
2. Syntax and code readability
Syntax plays a prominent part as a point of difference between PHP and Python. To be brief, the syntax of PHP kind of resembles that of the C language. The programmers have to be careful and need to use curly brackets, operators, and additional characters. What is more, developers can also ignore the white spaces while the compilation is on-going, bringing the additional usability that will assist in structuring the code into logical components.
As of Python, the syntax is made on the separation of codes with spaces and tabs, expediting the process of coding to a great extent. Moreover, Python’s syntax is readable which makes it easy for beginners to learn it effectively.
3. Price
It is a good thing that both languages are open-source which means nothing but that they are free to use. In fact, developers have advocated that these even though free in nature, maybe better than some of the paid frameworks.
4. Library Support
What gives Python an edge in the battle of PHP vs Python 2020 is that it has exceptionally extensive and well-developed library support for all types of applications developed using Python. Some of the most preferred libraries that developers use in Machine learning development along with others are TensorFlow, Theano, Scikit, etc.
Though PHP is lagging behind, it also has packages repository “Packagist” that is pretty popular among the developers.
5. Web frameworks
Both PHP and Python have loads of responsive and incredible web frameworks to start with. For Python-based web frameworks, some that stand out the most are Django, Bottle, CherryPy, Pyramid, and more.
As for PHP-based web frameworks, we have Laravel, Codeigniter, Zend, Symphony, and so on. As both Python and PHP programming languages provide a pretty good variety of choices to the developers, beginners are still a little bit more inclined towards Python’s Django framework because it is mighty fast.
{Bonus Read: Django vs Ruby on Rails}
6. Debugging
To give you the verdict on this point of comparison of PHP and Python before even diving deep into it, we have to say that it is a draw.
You ask why? Well, if Python has “Python Debugger” (PDB), a well-documented and facile debugger, then PHP has its “XDebug” package; both offering the most basic debug features – stacks, path mapping, breakpoints, and more.
7. Front-end feasibility
Web programmers also look forward to developing the layout or the front-end of their websites and portals using numerous effective tools along with languages like Bootstrap, CS, Angular, etc. Python here provides numerous opportunities for the developers to adopt the same techniques and later combine it with Python code by employing frameworks.
This way, designers can easily design websites, whereas the backend developers find it easy to use via a much subtle and understandable language like Python. So, definitely, Python here wins over the PHP.
8. Usability
It is prominent to consider the architecture of the languages before we conjecture anything in favor of either language.
The fact that both Python and PHP are object-oriented translate into that they compress code modules containing some functions and data in objects. So, any developer who is even a little bit familiar with object-oriented programming can use either of the languages.
9. Maturity
On the grounds of maturity, Python is inevitably the winner since it was first introduced in 1989 by Guido van Rossum and released in 1991. Its latest update 3.8.0 was released recently on 14 October 2019. It is the most mature and secure among the technologies which make the fundamental building blocks of the intricate mosaic that is the IT industry.
As for PHP, it was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Though not as mature as Python, it still has created a still in the market with its features. The very first manifestation of PHP was a simplistic set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries that were written in the C language. The latest version of PHP is 7.2.7.
10. Package Management
Speaking of Python, its package managers are effective in organizing the code and keeping the backups along with the version numbers. It helps the developers track their progress while helping businesses perform regular updates on the activities.
As of PHP, though is package management, however, it doesn’t match up to the PIP, a tool to manage and install Python packages. It allows developers to install, upgrade, and even uninstall while using a wide range of sources for external as well as internal libraries.
11. Market Popularity
If you want to judge or compare two things, market popularity tops the list of points of comparison, because it indicates why developers and programmers love something.
Looking at this graph above we can surmise that Python is the most searched on the web in the US as compared to PHP.
It has been observed that 7,212,664 websites have been developed using PHP, and as for Python, the number amounts to be 146,702. What is more, PHP is leading in countries like the US, Japan, Germany, and other 150+ countries. In a survey by w3techs.com, as you can see in the graph, it is evident that as of May 29, 2019, PHP was the most popular language based on traffic.
12. Versatility
Python in comparison to PHP is evidently versatile in nature as it is an ideal choice for developing websites integrated with Machine Learning and AI. It comes with an abundance of libraries that support these technologies and facilitate their integration into the web apps.
13. Well-thought-out design
While comparing PHP vs Python for backend, we found that Python, as compared to PHP, is fairly easy to grasp. Python has a well-thought-out-design (refers to the method used to insert code) than PHP. This means that developers find it easy to program for backend with Python than they do with PHP. It is simply because Python is a flexible yet robust programming language, something that PHP lacks.
14. Documentation
Well, it is a draw. Both languages have an abundance of documentation spread across the internet. Any beginner can easily find resources and documents related to any aspect of these languages and can get answers to even the most complicated queries- All thanks to their communities.
15. Environment Management
Speaking of environment managers, Python is extremely lucky in this regard. There are some terrific breed applications to manage the environment. One such example is Virtualenv – a system that is used to install and use numerous versions of Python simultaneously and switch them as often as needed with ease.
Though PHP also has an analog for Virtualenv known as VirtPHP. However, it is advised to use containers.
16. Learning Curve
Starting with PHP, being a straightforward language, it has a fairly low learning curve. It is ideal to learn PHP for short-term projects, but if you want to learn something that gives long-term benefits then Python is your match.
Though on its own PHP is easy to learn, however in comparison to Python, PHP has a steep learning curve for Python is the most readable and easily comprehensible language. It is because the language uses a much simpler syntax.
17. Community Support
Both languages enjoy the support of active communities. It is a crucial aspect for a beginner to consider before committing oneself to a particular language, simply because the learning process is full of doubts and queries and having strong support resolves half the issues.
However, we have to admit that community support of PHP is outstanding, given how actively they have been deprecating the language’s outdated aspects.
18. Salary and Job opportunities
While considering the payscale of both languages, we found that Python developers, on average, make somewhere around $120,024 every year in the United States. Whereas, PHP developers make an average of $86,017 per year.
In fact, you can see in the image above that Python developers, globally make nearly $63k, whereas PHP did not even make it to the list accumulated by Stack Flow.
Final Thoughts
To end this discussion, we would state the most obvious – both languages are differently capable in all aspects. One may surpass the other in one aspect and may lose in others. They both have their own set of features and functions to perform.
They are a paradox in themselves; there are many similarities between PHP and Python, and at the same time are dissimilar as well in many aspects.
Nevertheless, Python has emerged to be the winner in most of the comparison points such as documentation, job opportunities, salary, etc. So, it is up to an individual which one they choose based on their requirements.
React Native has established itself as a prime choice of startups and establishments looking for a mode to enter the app domain in a cost and time-efficient manner. And with this establishment, the focus has once again shifted on the incorporation of the platform in the app development process, especially when entrepreneurs are looking to build cross-platform applications. Increasing with this full-grown demand for React Native app development is the pressure on React Native developers to develop high-performing offline first apps that can be scaled whenever required. This, in turn, has led them to look back at the technology stack and choice of platform to build React Native applications off of. Especially the backbone of the application – React Native database. In this article, we are going to look into names that are fit for React Native app development today and are worthy of being in the list of top React Native databases for 2020. Let us start in a full disclosure mode, though.Let’s highlight the factors we looked into when curating the list of the top react native databases for 2020 and for some more years to come.
Table Of Content:
Factors to Consider When Choosing React Native Databases for Your Project
The Best React Native Databases for App Development
Realm
Firebase
SQLite
PouchDB
Async Storage
Watermelon DB
Vasern
BerkeleyDB
Factors to Consider When Choosing React Native Databases for Your Project
Complexity of the Data
A key-value storage is default option for a number of server-side and client-side scripting languages. Mainly, both – values and keys – have to be serialized in strings, either by a React Native developer or through the library itself. Now although necessary, serialization can bring serious halts and issues in how your application performs, especially when it operates in a limited resources environment of smartphones.
So, ideally a react native development company chooses a database which helps you store more complex data compared to the key-value pairs like full documents and objects and comes with complex data types.
Number of Line of Codes
If you take more than 20 lines of code to write a simple CRUD operations, any advanced database should be your last choice. Because, not only an advanced DB would make coding complicated but it would even affect the database performance heavily and the overall React Native app development cost. Additionally, processing of so many code lines would slow down the application greatly.
So do not make use of a database that comes with advanced functionality if it carries the chances to lower your app’s user experience and delay the release speed.
Synching of the Offline Data
If you are developing a low complexity application which does not offer multiple-user collaboration, you can use a simple database that would work well with a simplified synchronization functionality. These app types can sync with server whenever an internet connection is established.
With collaboration being the primal feature of an application, syncing functionality demands the database to be complex. Applications like Trello, which cannot show different versions of a document or project, however, requires a react native app development company to achieve perfect synching even when the network conditions are patchy.
Handling Data Conflicts and Concurrency
The more collaboration related features you add inside your application, the more would be the possibility of data conflicts.
You should look for databases, which share the conflict-handling policies on website or the repository pages. Dig into the database documents to get aware of how they handle syncing and conflicts or look into the trade-offs that are made and the effect it would make on the application.
Memory Management
Inefficient database memory handling practices can lead to app crashes.
Compaction is one of the proactive processes of memory management in which the documents or data that are not going to be of use are deleted from the memory.
The process is like the ‘garbage collection’ part of programming, which ensures there is free memory available at any given point in time.
On the basis of these five factors we have identified the local React Native database options which would be best suited for your react native application development process.
The Realm database has been brought into existence for development of real-time and offline applications which run on both wearable and mobile devices. The database has proved to be equally beneficial when you create React Native mobile apps for iOS and Android. It is not built on ORM or on top of SQLite, so it comes with own database engine and does not rely on the key value stores.
This is one of the reasons why React native developers use Realm as one of the chosen local react native database options to handle large data or for the development of high performance applications.
While there are other databases for simple apps, the combination of Realm and React native is best suited for large sized apps.
Benefits of Realm and React Native:
Realm Sync – the sync services operate in the background and records, saves all the user interactions and the service requests locally.
Offline friendliness through Redux Offline – for those looking for a solution to implement offline-first architecture through Realm for React native apps, Redux offline can be a great option.
Security – It uses multiple encryption standard for every different mobile platform.
Pricing:The Realm is a local database in react native app that is completely open-source and free. The pro version, though comes with a cost. But if you purchase the platform for creating react native apps it would cost $1750 per month.
Firebase
Firebase supports the real-time NoSQL database for the development of react native applications. It is chosen mainly for its offline data change and data synchronization practices. The reason why Firebase for Startups is such an in thing is because it is completely capable of handling the requirements of the M and C of the MVC needed for react native based applications.
Benefits of Firebase for React Native App Development
Real-time syncing of data – with Firebase for React Native, the data is synced in real time for all clients, at the same time. This becomes very important for when an app goes offline unannounced because of the unavailability of internet connection.
Low setup efforts – Firebase offers a cross-platform API which calls for minimal setup when it is being used inside an application. Additionally, you won’t need an application server for accessing the data as it can directly be accessed through a mobile phone.
Offline persistence – the combination of Firebase and React Native gives the developers an ability to develop real-time apps with offline persistence capabilities. This consists of marking users’ presence online or offline and storing timestamp whenever users get disconnected.
Firebase is free to upto 1GB data storage. However, it does offer a $25 for 2.5 GB data storage minimal price in addition to a pay as you use package.
SQLite
It was designed to offer local storage to mobile applications. The prominence of the word Lite in the database name implies that it is a lightweight library and that it requires minimal setup. It can also be directly integrated within the mobile application for directly accessing the database.
Benefits of SQLite for React Native based Application Development
ACID compliance – it is an ACID compliant database which implements SQL standards with some omissions. The architecture of the library is file-based and there are some tools that can handle all the data types with simplicity and ease.
Offline persistence – In order to enable the offline persistence via SQLite, developers can use a react-native-SQLite-storage plugin for managing data within application.
Pricing:
SQLite, being in the public domain is free to use and open source. However, if you want to obtain license for copyright infringement, you would have to pay one time fees of $6000.
PouchDB
PouchDB is an open source Javascript database that stores data in JSON format and enables developers to take advantage of using React Native in the easiest manner: by developing, reading, updating, querying, and deleting queries with a single JavaScript API. The database is compatible with MySQL, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Benefits of PouchDB for React Native App Development
Because the PouchDB stays inside a browser, the need to perform queries over network is not there. This, as a whole, leads to faster queries’ execution.
Developers can sync data with any supported server and thus can run the applications both offline and online.
Async Storage
Async storage is a local storage system that gives developers the capability to store data locally and persist data between the app reboots. The database comes in-built with React native so it can be used without any additional deployment.
Benefit of Async Storage for React Native Apps:
It comes in handy when you have to save the data which the app need to use even after the user has closed the app or the device.
Watermelon DB
Built on SQLite, it is a high-performance reactive database for React Native which comes with the potential of scaling hundreds to thousands of records without losing its speed. The database has been well optimized for building complex applications in React Native with a focus on real-world performance.
Benefits of Watermelon DB for React Native App Development:
In addition to scaling over 100 – 10000 records, Watermelon DB also supports developers to take full advantage of using react native through:
Offline first system
Static typing with Flow
Building apps on SQLite foundation
Vasern
It is one of the most lightweight, fast, and open-source databases for app development using react native. The Vasern API is used not just for local data storage but also for cloud storage and syncing across the app’s clients. Vasern’s design and structures are inspired by various open source databases.
The Benefits of this Inspiration from Multiple Open Source Database Include:
It is open source
Developer friendly end-to-end database syncing
Focus on consistency and performance
Fast operation
BerkeleyDB
Berkeley DB is an open source, high performance backend for React Native which allows developers to handle data in multiple ways. It offers an API for multiple languages which includes iOS and Android.
It can handle data in multiple ways: a relational way like how SQLite does or through the Key/Value pair data as byte arrays and supports multiple data items for a single key.
While these are the top React native databases of the current and the speculated time there are a number of other backend tools that developers and react native app development companies use to create their application.
The answer to which is the best database tool ultimately depends on your project type. Get in touch with our consultants to discuss which react native database would best suit your project.
